[kd498]

Need some help with an accurate identification on these forks.
I know the usual suggestions, but no one has been 100% positive.
Its the additional fixing for the steerer tube that throws things.
Dont know what the Heart on the inside of the leg siginifies?
A copy, or have i just missed something important.....

Thanks
I bow to your knowledge in advance.

 

[banks]

Tange Switch blade, to me.

 

[kd498]

Tange Switchblades with mud guard eyelets?
Not something i have seen on anything else on the web.

 

[lebikerboy]

Kind of looks like an old IRD (Interloc Racing Design) fork.

 

[DeeEight]

My tange switchblades didn't have eyelets on the dropouts, nor the heart shapes on the inside of the legs.

 

[Caffeine Powered]

Keith Bontrager made a fork similar to it but I don't recall it having eyelets. Could be a Switchblade too.

Looks like a solid bit of 1989 history though.

 

[Fillet-brazed]

Keith Bontrager made a fork similar to it but I don't recall it having eyelets. Could be a Switchblade too.

Looks like a solid bit of 1989 history though.

looks like an Asian knock-off of a Bontrager/Switchblade. The heart looks European though... Definitely not the real thing. Crown is different too.

 

[holden]

i'm going to say:

"No" on IRD ... seems that their crowns had much wider gaps.

"No" on Bontrager ... brake boss was quite different also the fork pictured would be akin to the Race but the Race (ones I have) aren't filled in at bottom of leg/dropout.

"Likely" Tange Switchblades ... though one pictured may have been modified by owner. On the Switchblades I have where the Hearts are there is a small rubber plug. Maybe it was an OEM Switchblade fork?

 

[Fillet-brazed]

i'm going to say:

"No" on IRD ... seems that their crowns had much wider gaps.

"No" on Bontrager ... brake boss was quite different also the fork pictured would be akin to the Race but the Race (ones I have) aren't filled in at bottom of leg/dropout.

"Likely" Tange Switchblades ... though one pictured may have been modified by owner. On the Switchblades I have where the Hearts are there is a small rubber plug. Maybe it was an OEM Switchblade fork?

The legs or the crown dont match anything made by Bonty or Tange. That crown is pretty close, but it is different.

 

[Tracerboy]

I've never seen those forks before,other than the Tange and IRD.The hearts may be stoppers so you don't drop the fork l:thumbsup: egs too low. Kinda neat.

 

[jacobslide]

Ever figure out who made the fork?